In September 1846, American poet Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond and ventured north to Maine. He wanted to see true wilderness that had long been erased from most of Massachusetts. He found it on Maine’s highest peak, Mount Katahdin. “Primeval, untamed and forever untamable Nature,” he wrote in his travelogue published two years later, documenting a climb in which Thoreau and his party got lost and never actually reached the summit. “Think of our life in nature,—daily to be shown matter, to
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